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n \ r c APPROXIMATE TIME SPAN: SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS: 1952-1956 The work appears to be the necessary basic research on a drug whose impact on society was just beginning The studies included the use of LSD in therapy. As far as is known, subjects in this experimentation were witting. Funds are included for the payment of subjects. Sub-Project No. 7 ' s proposal contains the following quotation: "One of the difficulties of determining explicitly the effect of the drug itself is that the subject and the observer are both conscious of the fact that an experiment is being performed. It is hoped that, in the next year, subjects on the who are essentially normal from a psychiatric point of view, will be given unwitting doses -of the drug for psychotherapeutic purposes. In this way more valuable experiments will probably be carried out in spite of hospital conditions." It is not known whether unwitting, in this case, meant fully unwitting or unwitting as to timing. It is also unknown whether unwitting doses were actually given. FUNDING : COVER M£CHANISM :,.-£°schickter Foundation for Medical Resea APPROXIMATE TOTAL: $205^000 2 - 4r 7 ooO -A -s